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Guest
post
by
Brian
Fitch,
Product
Manager
for
IBM
Security.
The
intensity
of
the
threat
landscape
is
constantly
increasing
and
evolving.
As
a
result,
we
have
seen
a
lot
of
corresponding
innovation
in
security
technologies
and
services,
often
times
from
small
businesses.
While
we
all
want
to
see
advances
that
improve
the
global
state
of
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Today's
post
comes
from
Sydney
Shealy,
Market
Segment
Manager,
Application
Security.
In
their
annual
report
released
this
month,
the
IBM
X-Force
Research
and
Development
team
labeled
2011
as
the
year
of
the
security
breach.
The
report
pointed
out
that
attackers
did
not
discriminate
by
sector,
company
size,
or
location.
With
this
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Ever
get
the
sense
that
marketing
jargon
is
getting
out
of
hand?
Consider
this
sentence:
‘Siloed
management
must
give
way
to
a
new
paradigm
of
holistic
business
value.’ ‘New
paradigm,’
in
particular,
seems
a
little
doubtful.
I
learned
a
long
time
ago
not
to
talk
about
paradigms,
especially
in
the
context
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